Health

Louisiana hasn't come as close to running out of hospital beds or ventilators as models predicted, an outcome officials attributed to a combination of the success of a stay-at-home order that has tamped down infections and the worst-case assumptions that were baked into the state's numbers.  In the hard-hit New Orleans region, for instance, state models…

(CNN)As the novel coronavirus sweeps the globe, people with high blood pressure are among those who are at heightened risk for more severe complications should they contract Covid-19. "If you get an extraordinary viral disease that will damage your lungs, yo…

THE PANDEMIC of the novel coronavirus is a bow wave, slicing through whole populations at breakneck speed. But what is not being seen yet is the enormous collateral damage to global health. The pandemic is making it harder or impossible to combat such scourges as measles, polio, HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, which caused death and…

It’s a familiar litany by now: As Covid-19 spread, ravaged lives, and upended the global economy over the last two months, President Donald Trump first downplayed the virus—assuring Americans that it was going to go away—then chalked it all up as a complete surprise. On January 22, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, it…

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